Demystify Quotes

#1. It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

John Le Carre

#2. I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.

Sergio Leone

#3. I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.

David Duchovny

#4. I do not accept history as determinism. I embrace history as possibility [where] we can demystify the evil in this perverse fatalism that characterizes the neoliberal discourse in the end of this century.

Paulo Freire

#5. I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what it's about. Music and art can be damaged severely by too much information; I say that as somebody that has participated in that.

Trent Reznor

#6. Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.

Cheri Huber

#7. To demystify the meaning of love, the art and practice of loving, we need to use sound definitions of love when talking with children, and we also need to ensure that loving action is never tainted with abuse.

Bell Hooks

#8. I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.

Andrew Motion

#9. We need to demystify - get out and speak to strangers on the street.

Colin Salmon

#10. Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Martin Luther

#11. You never let the cards tell their own story; you were trying to make them confirm what you imagined you knew.

Paulo Coelho

#12. It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#13. Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

Djuna Barnes

#14. Depending on the budget. I think I prefer 3D to 2D now. Also, because of 3D I have to use a digital camera, which is the way it's going anyway. That still confuses me, a digital camera versus film.

Ang Lee

#15. 'Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.

Lydia Lunch

#16. The sun's down and the moon's pretty - it's time to ramble.

Elvis Presley

#17. Apparently, once you got used to regular and spectacular sex, your body had a mind of its own (so to speak) when it was deprived of that recreation; to say nothing of missing the hugging and cuddling part.

Charlaine Harris

#18. The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough.

Bill Maher

#19. Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

Vladimir Lenin

#20. I am asking the state of Israel to revoke my citizenship. This wish for revocation of citizenship is neither new nor recent. Now, however, it is supported by the new Revocation of Citizenship Law.

Mordechai Vanunu

#21. At the end of each meditation session, bow your head toward the ground. Give away your meditation to the universe. Whether you feel you have done well or poorly, simply give your efforts to the universe.

Frederick Lenz